Companionship is what makes every journey enjoyable.

Today, we continue our journey with Jesus.

Join Scott Pauli as we make brief stops in the Gospel according to Mark.

We trust you will enjoy the journey.

In my study, I have hundreds of biographies. I love to read biography. And one of the

things that has always fascinated me is the lives of people that were greatly blessed and used of God

to try to discern and understand why did the Lord choose to use them? What's so special about them?

One of the dangers in reading biography is that you can start to try to imitate or mimic

things that really are not the main thing. We tend to look at the peripheral things around a

person's life, but in fact, the Lord does his mighty work in certain people because of one thing.

In Mark chapter 6, we've learned that our God's a mighty God who wants to do a mighty work.

He does his mighty work in common places like Nazareth,

at least he wants to. He does his mighty work through his word. It all begins with his word and those

who are attentive to it. But I want to draw your attention to this truth today. He does his mighty work

in simple people, really simple people. One of the amazing thing when you study history that

you're going to discover is that the people that were greatly blessed and used of God, oftentimes

were blessed not because of who they were, but in spite of who they were. They were unusual people.

They were unknown people. They had their idiosyncrasies and their quirks, and yet

they were greatly blessed and used of God, and most often they were very simple people.

Does that encourage you? I'm a simple person. Are you a simple person? This world is made up

of mostly ordinary people. Well, I want you to know, God wants to do a mighty work in you,

and I don't know about you. I don't want to miss it. I don't want to be Lot. I don't want to be

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